Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:30-33 
Context28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 1 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 2 28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Deuteronomy 28:38
ContextThe Curse of Reversed Status
28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:51
Context28:51 They 3 will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, 4 or lambs of your flocks 5 until they have destroyed you.
1 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.
2 tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”
3 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
4 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
5 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
